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Climate Change & Sustainability

Overview

From impact investing to developing clean, environmentally friendly projects and initiatives, we help corporations, philanthropies, and individuals identify and execute on business practices and investment strategies that are both economically profitable and environmentally sustainable. We counsel clients at all stages of energy and sustainability project development, including screening, structuring, developing, and financing projects for hosts, developers, and investors. We evaluate energy and environmental regulatory issues, tax and governmental incentives, and business and contractual risks for energy and sustainability projects. We structure public-private partnerships and project financings, and we assist with integrating sustainability goals and requirements into energy procurements, projects, and enterprises. We defend lawsuits by activist groups seeking to hold energy companies liable for alleged damages from climate change, using our environmental, administrative law and litigation experience. And as companies contemplate becoming a benefit corporation or sustainable business, we’re here to help — we were intimately involved in the legislative process in many of the states that have authorized benefit corporations (B Corps), and we know the legal requirements necessary to attain B Corp status.

Insights & Events

Latest

Updates March 2026

Directing Innovation and Accountability in Environmental Markets

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
1 min read
Podcast February 2026

Bridging Agriculture and Energy: Leadership, Coalition-Building, and the Future of Sustainability

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast January 2026

Transforming Agriculture and Environmental Markets with Innovation in Green Ammonia and Fertilizer

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast December 2025

Transforming Waste Into Climate Assets and Solutions

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast December 2025

Securing Sustainability: Digitizing Trust and Impact in Carbon Markets

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Updates November 2025

Ninth Circuit Stays Enforcement of SB 261 Climate Financial Risk Reporting While CARB Updates SB 253 Guidance on Carbon Emissions Reporting

Enforcement of SB 261 Stayed Pending Appeal
3 min read
Speaking Engagement Recap April 21, 2025

Regulatory and Litigation Update

Meat Institute’s Environment, Labor and Safety+ Conference
1 min read
Speaking Engagement Recap March 20, 2025

Ethylene Oxide Emissions Class Actions: Challenging or Defending Risk Assessment Testing Methodologies

Stafford Webinar
1 min read
News May 2024

Bonnie Barnett Elected as Fellow to American College of Environmental Lawyers

1 min read
Press Release May 2024

Faegre Drinker Philadelphia Office Bolstered by Addition of Environmental Partner Tom Duncan

2 min read
Insights
Updates March 2026

Directing Innovation and Accountability in Environmental Markets

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
1 min read
Podcast February 2026

Bridging Agriculture and Energy: Leadership, Coalition-Building, and the Future of Sustainability

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast January 2026

Transforming Agriculture and Environmental Markets with Innovation in Green Ammonia and Fertilizer

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast December 2025

Transforming Waste Into Climate Assets and Solutions

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Podcast December 2025

Securing Sustainability: Digitizing Trust and Impact in Carbon Markets

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Updates November 2025

Ninth Circuit Stays Enforcement of SB 261 Climate Financial Risk Reporting While CARB Updates SB 253 Guidance on Carbon Emissions Reporting

Enforcement of SB 261 Stayed Pending Appeal
3 min read
Podcast October 2025

Integrating Carbon Credits and Renewable Energy Certificates in Bundled Solutions

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
1 min read
Podcast October 2025

Advancing the Circular Economy: Construction Materials That Capture Carbon and Reduce Carbon Emissions

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Updates October 2025

Power and Energy Trends Shaping the Data Center Industry

Proactive Legal and Advocacy Strategies Are Increasingly Critical
6 min read
Updates June 2025

Supreme Court Decides Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA

3 min read

Meet The Team

Meet The Full Climate Change & Sustainability Team